Sean Feast Bücher

The search to find the truth about the Bomber Command airmen missing from the famous Peenemunde raid in August 1943.

Focusing on the remarkable wartime career of Ted Sismore, the book highlights his exceptional skills as an RAF navigator and leader during World War II. Known for his strategic planning and execution of notable raids, he played a pivotal role in missions against high-profile Nazi targets, including a daylight attack on Berlin and Operation Jericho. After the war, he set a flying record with Mick Martin and continued his aviation career, retiring as an air commodore. Sismore's legacy is one of bravery and innovation in military aviation.

The RAF Halton Apprenticeship Scheme has a deserved reputation for excellence. The brainchild of MRAF Hugh Trenchard, the founder of the Royal Air Force, it took the 'traditional' idea of an apprenticeship and interpreted it in a novel way.

This comprehensive look at one of the war s most fascinating units will give the reader a greater understanding of the unit s vital contribution to the war and show how some of the techniques developed are still in use today.

Wing Commander Eric Benjamin was no stranger to danger or excitement. In an action-packed RAF career he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross twice for bravery under fire. Flying Fairey Battles, Lancasters, and De Havilland Mosquitoes as an elite Pathfinder Master Bomber, Eric once said of flying that there was ‘no greater sport’.

It is 23rd December 1944 and a heroic yet dreadful action is about to take place over Cologne, involving the bravest of the brave – The Pathfinder Force. In the log book of one of that force, Flight Sergeant George Owen, are the details of his 29 operations. The final entry for this date, above a heavily inked stamp proclaiming ‘Death Presumed’ is the simple word ‘missing’. The raid, one of the most important of that time, is scarcely mentioned in history books, and yet it was an operation in which its leader won the Victoria Cross, and a future VC fought a similarly heroic battle. But it was also an ordeal in which ordinary men fought and died – ordinary men doing extraordinary things. This story is for them. Journalist Sean Feast has written this, his third book, in two parts, the first the gripping narrative, the second the retrospective reactions of the survivors, in equal parts moving and informative. This last element is unique and gives the all-important ‘Forgotten Voice’ aspect to the work.